From the map room — a Sanborn fire-insurance map of Sonoma in 1888. Drawn for insurers, these maps recorded every building in a town, street by street — a remarkably intimate snapshot of the valley’s towns a century ago.
What the paper was printing that year
R. A. Poppeand Ed. Wegner; Marshal, G.W. Sparks. H. C. Lutgens and F. Breitenbach were tied for City Clerk, receiving 52 votes each. Jn the contest for Treasurer there was also a tie. be- tween F. Duhring and M. Muldry, 51 votes being polled for each. This will necessitate the holding of a special election should a recount by the Trustees verify the returns made by the election officers. ——____—=s>-_ 0 = The Depot Site. The Sonoma depot site of the Santa R… — 1888-04-14
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G. F. Hopper of Sobre Vista Farm, located a few miles’ west of Sonoma,in giving his experience with the Mission and Picholine loamy soil and have been well eul- tivated each year. This is the first year that any of them have borne fruit—a few trees having a few olives,on them, and the berries are small. In land adjoining this, [ planted in 1875 or 1876, about 100 Mission olive cuttings. The-growth not rest. But to Jie at full length upon a hard surface, ar… — 1888-11-03
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